Facebook is awesome, just set it so none of your friends rubbish appears on your news feed, like a ton of pages for hot models, and use it as a way to communicate with people via inbox. It's like MSN with an awesome feed of pictures. It is possible to use it and not be a moron, just don't fall into that trap where you sit in a restaurant taking a picture of your food to put on your 'wall' etc.
God I hate those people so so so much.
I was just about to post something similar. I had a Facebook account years ago, and gradually everyone from work found their way onto it, some people got into trouble for various Facebook mishaps at work or putting stuff on there that they shouldn't, so I closed mine down.
However, I missed communicating with those people who I don't see all that often. People I have met in Le Mans, who live in Europe etc. I also found out during this closure, it costs 18p a text to Belgium!!
Yes I could text / email them, but I just found Facebook an easier way to "socialise" with these people, so about 6 months ago, I opened a new account, and just added a few proper friends and two or three work people who I have known for donkeys anyway.
Now its much better! We have already organised next years Le Mans trips on there, along with a few other Motorsport related adventures.
In terms of privacy, what few pictures I do have on there are set to "Me Only" in the settings, so only I can see them. Likewise with friends list and anything else. When viewing my profile as Public, all you can see is my profile picture, which is Le Mans related anyway.
Its very easy via all the settings to chose what people see and what they don't see, so I don't really understand the problem.
I also work permanent nights, so don't always manage to find the time to catch up with people as much as I would like, so FB helps sometimes!
Its a bloody good tool when used properly
